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G. H. REYNOLDS. BOOK FINISHERS LETTERING MACHINE. No. 443,379.

Patented Dec. 23, 1890.

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BOOK FINISHERS LETTERING MACHINE.

N0. 443,379. Patented Dec. 23, 1890.

A Tron/v5 rs UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE ll. REYNOLDS, OF NEXV YORK, N. Y.

BOOK-FINISHERS LETTERING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 443,379, dated December 23,1890.

Application filed May 29, 1890.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. REYNOLDS, of New York,in the county and Stateof New York, have invented a new and useful Book- .Finishers LetteringMachine, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in letteringmachines for book-finishers use; and the invention consists in certain features of construction and combination of parts, as hereinafter described, and indicated in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the machine with a pallet in position thereon. Fig. 2 isa side elevation with the front portion andbaseplate in section, taken on the line 2 2 in Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a plan View of the device. Fig. at is an enlarged broken partly-sectional elevation of the machine with the pallet removed, taken on the line 4 at in Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the pallet removed from the pressing-machine, and Fig. (3 is an enlarged detached view of a lettering-guide used in connection with thelettering-machine The base-plate A is preferably made rectangular in contour and level for the proper support of the article operated upon. Near the transverse center and at a suitable distance from the front edge a of the base-plate A the vertical standard B is erected.

The standard B maybe varied in form; but it is essential for the efficient action of the device that a forward projection of the standard be produced at a proper distance above the base-plate, thereby affording an arm B, whereon the working parts of the machine are supported.

On the forward portion of the arm B there is a vertical housing-frame 0 formed or secured, which frame is laterally supported in connection with the arm of the standard by the web-braces b.

The vertical housing-frame G is constructed having opposite parallel guide-grooves c therein for the reception and support of a slidin g head-block D, that is furnished with $erial1l'o.353,572. (No model.)

laterally-extending tongues d, which loosely engage the grooves named,and thus retain the head-block in connection with the housing-frame 0, free to reciprocate vertically thereon.

As represented in Fig. 1, the head-block D is cut away to produce an aperture at c,which is preferably circular in shape, said aperture being intersected by a vertical slot cut from the lower edge of the head-block, thus forming two depending limbs g on the head-block, which are of similar conformation, said limbs being provided for the adjustable retention of the pallet E in connection with the slidin g head-block D, as will be further explained.

The head-block D is adjustably connected to the housing-frame O by a coarse-threaded screw h, which engages a nut or threaded orifice in the top wall of the frame, as at 'i in Fig. 2, and is loosely secured to the head-block in any suitable manner, so that a rotation of the screw by a manipulation of the handwheel m, that is affiXed to the upper end of the screw, will slide the head-block D in the grooves c, said hand-wheel having a diametrical size, which will afford required leverage in service.

Oppositely on the limbs g of the head-block D horizontal guideledges n n are made to project therefrom. The ledges n are located upon the exterior surface of the limbs g, and have their lower edges aligned with the lower edges of the limbs they are fastened upon. The inner ledges n are made to extend a short distance below the lower edges of the limbs g, and thus serve as an abutment for the pallet E. The upper edges of the inner ledges n and outer ledges 1?. lie in the same horizontal plane. Above the upper edges of the ledges n n guide-strips 0 are secured to the limbs g. Equal spaces intervene between each pair of the lodges and strips that are adjacent, so as to provide open guide-channels 0', wherein the hanger-loops 1) may be introduced, as shown in Fig. 4.

The pallet or hand-tool E is of ordinary form, such as is used by book-binders in tinishing the backs of bound books when these are to be lettered or ornamented by type-impressions.

As shown in Fig. 5, the tool E consists of liange v" is formed, a handle s being attached sired.

to the plate 1' at its center of length and width.

Two similar presser-blocl s are located on the lower lace ot' the slide thereon by a parts, (not shown,) ed longittuliintlly by they dovetail engagement of ally by the setscrew 1:, which inserted through the depending car and bears upon a binding-strip 1', that: is located between the the blocks/ being adjustplate 1' and adapted to by the sct-screws 1/, whereare caused to impinge against the so I .ries of type 1:, which are held in place latertype i; and ear 2, as shown in Figs 2 and 5.

Upon the inner surface of the head-block l) athree limbed brace 11 is attached thereto, which brace stitteus the limbs 5 and by the location ot. its vertical limb it" affords a guide for the proper introduction of the pallet; E, the handle s of which pallet is made to align with this limb when the palletisplaced in position between the limb g of the headblock D, which will correctly locate the holding frame of the pallet.

The hanger-loops p, Fig. 4, are formed of thin metal strips whose inwardly-bent and aligned ends enter and are adapted to slide typci in guide-chalmclsformed byand between the ledges a a and strips o.

After the appropriate name or type ornamental design is assembled and secured in the heated pallet-frame, then the introduced bet ween the limbs g, as previously explained, and there secured by sliding the loops p over the pallet-frame toward each other, as shown in Fig. l,which will properly dispose the lower faces of the types to engage a-book-cover or entire boolc placed under the head-block l), the distance or space between the base-plate and the head-blockl) being such as will t'reelyadmitof the thickest bound vol nmetoliebetwecn. lt impressions are to be madeon thin books, ribbons, bands, titles, dc, the work can be raised to the pallet E by being built, from the base-plate A with blocks or boards surmounted by an iron plate. When the book-cover has been correctly located below the pallet E, an iinpression is quickly and easily produced upon it by rotation of the handavheel m in a proper direction.

Ordinarily the workman can produce a design or name upon the boolceover without the use of a guide to locate the impression in a proper-position on the book; but in some instances where accurate work requires such a device the guide it may be employed with good results.

As represented, the guide 1: is composed of a tiat bar .1, from which two upright arms rr pallet. E is i project, which arms have an adjustable engagement within the keeper-loops .15 wherein they may be slid, the thumli-screws a, serving to retain the guide-bar a; at. any point de- A parallel spaeing bar 1 is clamped upon the guide-bani byset bolts and nuts y, which engage the slotted limbs 1 of the spacing-bar, and by their adjustment retain the spacingbar at any point; advanced from the guidebar.

in use,al'terthe tirst line hasbcen imprinted upon a book-cover the spacingbar, it set to indicate the proper space between lines, will by its edge designate where the book is to be placed, so as to align and space successive lines, which are to be impressed parallel to the first or head line of the title, the vertical adju tment to suit; books of ditt'crent thicknesses bcinget't'ected by sliding the bar 1 and its limbs f in a vertical plane and securing the same where desired bya manipulation of the set-screws w.

llaving thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- The combination, with the frame,of the vertically-reciprocating head-block mounted thereon and having a central u m'ardly-cxt'ending slot; or opening in its lower edge and front and rear guide-ribs along its lower edge at opposite sides of the slot, and pallct-carrying loops having 1'nward-projccting upper ends to engage the said ribs, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with the frame, otthe verticallyi'eciproeat iug head-block having a central upwardcxtcnding slot or opening in its lower edge, opposite ribs on its front and rear sides along its lower edges, the lower edges of the rear ribs projecting below the lower edge of the head-block to form shoulders, and the pallet-carryingloops havinginward-extending projections at their upper ends to engage the said ribs, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination, with the base having an overhanging arm provided with avcrti cally-extiending casing, and the vertically-rcciprocating pallet-carrying head-block in said casing, of a vertically-adjustable gage comn'ising a cross-bar below and in front of the head-block and provided with vertical arms adjustably secured to opposite ends of the casing, and a spacingdjiarparallel with the said cross-bar and provided with slotted arms crossing said cross-bar and adjustable thereon to adjust the space between the said two bars, substantially as set; forth.

GEO. ll. REYNOLDS.

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